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Re: Why is this code giving me an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException?

The index used with the array at line 7 is past the end of the array. The array appears to be empty because there is no first element (index = 0)
The code should use an if statement to test the length of the array to make sure there are elements in the array.
If not either print out a message telling the user the problem
or give the array a default value with an assignment statement.